Training and Counselling

Training and counseling can be highly effective in increasing people’s ability and motivation to follow the promoted behaviours. Despite this potential, they are frequently designed and delivered in an ineffective manner. The following resources were chosen to help you ensure that your project’s training and counselling sessions are implemented in the best possible way to deliver the desired outcomes. Let us know if you think that an important resource is missing.

These lessons seek to build the skills of community-level workers, such as community development agents, community health workers, and agriculture extension agents, so that they can be more effective behavior change promoters in their communities. The lessons are not sector specific, and are tried and true generic skills, such as communication and storytelling, that can help a...

This website provides many useful resources on the use of the Care Group approach. A Care Group is a group of 10-15 volunteer, community-based educators who regularly meet together with project staff for training and supervision. Each volunteer is responsible for regularly visiting 10-15 of her neighbors, sharing what she has learned and facilitating behavior change at the household...

The toolkit has been produced as a resource for people who will be facilitating training. Its content is divided across several topics that broadly cover the following issues:
principles of learning
guidance on preparing for training
guidance on how to use the participatory training methods
guidance on the writing and production of...

This website includes a range of useful counselling and training materials on improving infant and young child feeding (IYCF), including training aids, counselling cards, key messages booklet, and brochuers.

This manual provides mentors of grandmother dialogue groups with the information and techniques they need to encourage discussions on family care and optimal infant and young child feeding. It provides step-by-step guidance to facilitate a three-day training workshop that uses group activities, focused discussions, brainstorming, and role-playing to introduce issues such as breastfeeding,...

The purpose of this guide is to help organizations involved in community programs to develop and use the Stories Without An Ending (SWE) approach. This adult education tool can be used to actively engage community groups in discussion of issues of priority concern to them and/or to development programs and to catalyze discussion of those ideas in the wider community. The generic SWE methodology...

This website provides an evidence map of existing research into the use (and effectiveness) of different types of social, behavioural and community engagement interventions for improving reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health. It provides easy-to-access links to the available research findings that can be filtered based on country, health topics, and other criteria.

This document describes a behavior change approach developed specifically for private practicing midwives to generate demand for family planning products and services and address unmet need for modern contraceptives in the Philippines.

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